Hey @lavande!
Super excited to share our progress. The development process is well under way. Happy to announce we’ll be fully rolling out the govNFTs soon, pending an audit, which may take a bit more time. We will keep this channel updated with our progress.
As a reminder, they will allow users to vote or delegate with OP tokens under a timelock. The frontend to be used can be found at https://govnft.eth.limo/.
We waited until we were comfortable with the development timeline to begin the community rollout and the process of bringing in participants. This process detailed in Velodrome X Optimism. The Next Phase of Partnership | by Velodrome (🚴,🚴) | Sep, 2023 | Medium, is well under way: we are in our first of several ‘races’, in which Velodrome Users can participate to receive govNFTs.
We have a Dune dashboard up that will detail the race results. https://dune.com/0xkhmer/velodrome-x-optimism shows the users that currently qualify.
We are currently in the process of recruiting protocols and have several interested parties. We are working to make sure these protocols have the best alignment with the Optimistic vision and will be active governance participants.
Once the govNFTs are distributed at the conclusion of the final race, we will already have met all of the critical milestones we laid out.
Excited to onboard all of these players to Optimism Governance!